Pocket Sized Pep Talks

Why Top Performers Struggle as Managers

Episode Summary

Promoting top performers into management roles without actually training them isn’t a sales problem; it’s a people problem. For decades, organizations have mistaken production for preparedness, assuming that excellence in execution automatically translates to excellence in leadership. In this quick, five-minute Pocket Sized Pep Talk, you’ll hear why skills that come naturally to top performers are often the very ones they struggle to teach, and how the absence of proper managerial training leads to burnout, turnover, and lost productivity. But there are solutions!

Episode Notes

In this Pocket Sized Pep Talk, you’ll learn:

• Why top performers often struggle when transitioning into management roles.
• How “unconsciously competent” skills make it difficult to coach and lead others.
• The type of training that truly equips new managers to succeed — and why it must be applied, practiced, and refined with real-world scenarios.

Rewarding performance with promotion only works when it’s supported by the training required to lead; and the people being managed will thank you for it.